Archives for December 2011

What worked for you last year? At least what worked at Accepted.com for our readers? And that’s YOU! Here are a few posts, articles, and resources that proved particularly popular: Top Ten Most Visited Accepted Admissions Blog Posts of 2011 Harvard Business School 2012 Essay Questions, Deadlines, Tips INSEAD 2012 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips…

1. Continuing Impact of Rising Tuition Combined with Recession The law school admissions world has been roiled by the high levels of debt assumed by law school students in anticipation of high-paying jobs that simply never materialized. A couple of cases of alleged fraud by admissions offices have further stirred this volatile stew. In 2013,…

IMD Executive MBA Application Essay Questions and Tips The IMD EMBA essay questions will generate a comprehensive view of you as a businessperson and a professional – in very succinct form. Although the essays are not long, be prepared to put good thought into deciding what to write. Also spend time deciding what to emphasize…

You want to apply to b-school as smartly as possible, right? Well now’s your chance – MBA Admission for Smarties is on sale for 20% off the cover price for THREE MORE DAYS ONLY. Use coupon code SMART20 through Saturday, December 31, 2011 and save big on the book that will help get you ACCEPTED!…

School Visits are Like Online Dating- The MBA Blog, “Por Qué….MBA?” One girl’s MBA application journey!, looks at the importance of visiting MBA programs before making any decisions about where to apply. MBA blogger Mango, visited both Columbia and Kellogg’s programs and learned about her “type” of program. She explained that the same way you…

Wherever you are in the world, chances are that a current MBA student from a top school is waiting to have coffee with you. In London, Delhi, Tel Aviv, Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Rio de Janiero, Zurich, Houston, and a host of other international cities, schools are dispatching current students to chat you…

If you attended our recent INSEAD Q&A then you know that Kara Keenan, the Assistant Director of Marketing for the Americas from INSEAD, covered a wide range of admissions topics, offering some excellent advice to our INSEAD applicants. Here’s an excerpt from the conversation in which Kara discusses the benefits of an INSEAD MBA –…

USC Tax LL.M. On Hold- Finally, a law school taking a cue from the current legal market. USC Gould School of Law has decided to shelve its tax LL.M. program due to the recession, The National Law Journal reports. The program would have been the school’s first LL.M. offered to domestic students (it already offers…

This post is courtesy of our friends at Magoosh. On the GMAT, very few concepts are more daunting than idioms. There are several reasons for this. First off, there are literally hundreds of them to memorize. Secondly, and related to the first point, many are arbitrary. For instance, we regard X as, but we do…

You’re eager to click “Submit” after spending so much time working on your college application…but WAIT! Don’t hit “submit” before going over your application one last time and making sure each of the following six items are checked off your to-do list: 1. Your application presents an accurate, holistic picture of you. Check (and then…

You may be the most dazzling, charming, and quick-thinking person in the world, but if you don’t actively prepare for your MBA interview, then you run the risk of drawing a blank and leaving your interviewer with a less-than-impressive picture of yourself. The following 4 tips will help you prepare for the big day by…

Thank you to everyone who “Liked” Accepted.com on Facebook and who spread the word about our campaign to raise money for Kids Kicking Cancer, a special organization that empowers kids to fight cancer through the healing power of the martial arts. In particular, we’d like to extend our gratitude to the following who helped promote…

Top MBA programs are looking for candidates who’ve got their heads on straight and have a clear idea of how a business degree will help shape their futures. It’s for this reason that the MBA goals essay is such an important element in the b-school application. So what do you do if you don’t know…

Poets and Quants published a revealing interview with Michigan Ross’s “gatekeeper,” Admissions Director Soojin Kwon Koh last week. Ms. Koh revealed in that interview a key piece of information for all Ross applicants especially but also for all MBA applicants in general: We’re “weighting the interviews …more heavily.” Ms. Koh asserts that “the interview will…

If you are a consultant applying to b-school, then you’re going to want all the assistance you can get to create an MBA application that helps you stand out in the crowded, competitive consultant field. You need tips specific to your background and perhaps an example of a successful applicant’s journey to acceptance. You need…

Accepted.com is continuing a blog series featuring interviews with current MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. We hope to offer you a candid picture of student life, and what you should consider as you prepare your MBA application. Here’s a talk with Charlotte Baxter, an East Coast girl who’s living…

The New GMAT Is Coming!- The Wall Street Journal looks at the struggle future b-school applicants will face with the new “integrated reasoning” section of the GMAT. While the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) announced the new section a year and a half ago, with registration for the test opening this month the details about…

The Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) has been conducting a Year-End Poll of Employers since 2009 and recently released its 2011 results. This year’s poll indicates that the job market for MBAs is looking up in 2012. The 2011 poll responses included 229 employers representing 216 companies, and here is what it discovered: 74% of…

Thank you for attending our recent Consortium Strategy Q&As with Travis McAllister and the reps from participating Consortium schools UT McCombs, University of Wisconsin, UC Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Michigan Ross, CMU Tepper, Indiana Kelley, and Rochester Simon. The school adcom representatives each talked about what’s new at their schools and how their programs view…

Show Me the Data- The Chronicle of Education reports that the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment has found that few colleges and universities post data on public websites about whether their students are learning. The NILOA’s report, “Making Student Learning Evidence Transparent: The State of the Art,” looked at 200 publicly accessible college and…